XV Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality: Philosophy and Film (València, September 18-20, 2023)

EXTENDED DEADLINE
MAY 31ST, 2023

The Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality promotes the interconnections across different areas in philosophy and, more specifically it favors the study of issues lying at the intersection of ethics, aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. In previous editions, the Workshop has been devoted either to the production of a particular philosoher, such as Richard Wollheim, Jonathan Dancy, Christine Korsgaard, Shaun Nichols, David Filkenstein, and Malcolm Budd; or to explore topics like the Philosophy of Music (with Peter Kivy, Noël Carroll or Derek Matravers), Self-Knowledge (with David Filkenstein and Sarah Sawyer) Art and Negative Emotions (with Susan Feagin and Eileen John) or the Cognitive Value of Fiction (with Gregory Currie). The 2023 edition is meant to explore all sorts of interconnections between philosophy and film.

Keynote Speaker

Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)

Venue

Sala de Graus (1st Floor)
Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences
University of València
Av. Blasco Ibáñez 30
València (Spain)

Call for Papers

We invite submissions on some aspect of the the interconnections between philosophy and film. Papers concerning Robert Pippin’s approach to this topic will be especially welcome. Authors should submit full papers (5000 words) or extended abstracts (2000 words) by May 31, 2023. Submissions should be sent to josepcorbi@gmail.com. The layout of the manuscript should accommodate anonymous refereeing (i.e. name and address on a separate sheet, and not repeated in the text). Notification of acceptance should be expected by June 15, 2023.

Scientific Committee

María José Alcaraz (University of Murcia)
Matilde Carrasco (Universidty of Murcia)
Byron Davies (Claustro de Sor Juana University)
Manuel García-Carpintero (Universidad de Barcelona)
Francisca P. Carreño (University of Murcia)
Salvador Rubio (University of Murcia) 
Chon Tejedor (University de Valencia) 
Enrico Terrone (University of Barcelona)

Organizers

Javier Castellote (University of València) and Josep E. Corbí (University of València)

Sponsors

Spanish Research Council via The Philosophy of Hybrid Representations (PID2020-119588GB-I00). Eliminativism, Fictionalism, and Expressivism. The possibility of a negative metaphysical verdict about a discourse (PID2019-106420GA-I00); Generalitat Valenciana via Lying and Deception (CIGE/2021/16); and Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy.

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XIV Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality: Aesthetic Normativity (Murcia, 5-6 May, 2022)

The Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality promotes the interconnections across different areas in philosophy and, more specifically it favors the study of issues lying at the intersection of ethics, aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. In previous editions, the Workshop has been devoted either to the production of a particular philosoher, such as Richard Wollheim, Jonathan Dancy, Christine Korsgaard, Shaun Nichols, David Filkenstein, and Malcolm Budd; or to explore topics like the Philosophy of Music (with Peter Kivy, Noël Carroll or Derek Matravers), Self-Knowledge (with David Filkenstein and Sarah Sawyer) Art and Negative Emotions (with Susan Feagin and Eileen John) or the Cognitive Value of Fiction (with Gregory Currie). On the 2022 edition, we intend to focus on the problems related to aesthetic normativity. Among others, we will consider issues concerning the kind of normativity exhibited by aesthetic judgments, the problem of aesthetic disagreement, the validity of aesthetic testimony, aesthetic akrasia and the problems related to the importance of aesthetic autonomy -such as aesthetic alienation, aesthetic injustice or snobbery.

Invited Speaker: Hanne Appelqvist (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)

Programme

Thursday 5 May

9:15 Welcome and opening

9:30 Invited speaker: Hanne Appelqvist “What We Talk About when we talk about beauty”

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Manuela Teles: “Aesthetic normativity: from Kant to Wittgenstein through Ginsborg and Sedivy”

12:30 Jacopo Frascaroli: “The Roots of Aesthetic Normativity: Insights from Cognitive Science”

13:30 Lunch

15:30 Alessandro Bertinetto: “Aesthetic Norms as Habits: Reasons for Situated Aesthetic Normativity”

16:30: Natxo Navarro “Considering a Wittgensteinian Normative Approach to Everyday Aesthetics”

Friday 6 May

9:30 Invited Speaker: Hanne Appelqvist “Hearing What Music Conveys”

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Hande Tuna: “Apt Perception and Aesthetic Normativity”

12:30 Javier González de Prado Salas: “Dubious Pleasures”

13:30 Lunch

15:30 Borbála Jász: “Aesthetic uncertainty in modern architecture”

16:30: Dan Zeman: “Illocutionary Disagreement in the Aesthetic Realm” 

Call for Papers: We invite submissions on any aspect of the current debate on any topic related to aesthetic normativity. Authors should submit full papers (5000 words) or extended abstracts (2000 words) by January 30th, 2022. Submissions should be sent to mariajo@um.es. The layout of the manuscript should accommodate anonymous refereeing (i.e. name and address on a separate sheet, and not repeated in the text). Notification of acceptance should be expected by March 15, 2022.

Scientific Committee:

Paloma Atencia-Linares (UNED)
Zsolt Bátori (Kodolányi János University y Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 
Carla Carmona (Universidad de Sevilla) 
Matilde Carrasco (Universidad de Murcia)
Josep Corbí (Universidad de Valencia) 
Manuel García-Carpintero (Universidad de Barcelona) 
Jesús Navarro (Universidad de Sevilla) 
Anna Christina Ribeiro (Texas Tech University) 
Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala Universitet)
Chon Tejedor (Universidad de Valencia) 
Jesús Vega (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) 
Gerard Vilar (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) 

Organizers: María José Alcaraz (University of Murcia) and Francisca Pérez Carreño (University of Murcia).

Sponsored by: Spanish Research Council via “Normative Aspects of Aesthetic Appreciation” (PID2019-106351GB-I00 Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad); “Beyond Beauty: nature and critical relevance of aesthetic properties” (20934/PI/18) Funded by: Fundación Séneca-Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia; The Philosophy of Hybrid Representations (PID2020-119588GB-I00). Eliminativism, Fictionalism, and Expressivism. The possibility of a negative metaphysical verdict about a discourse (PID2019-106420GA-I00). Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy.

Vice Epistemology: Recent Contributions by Quassim Cassam

XIII Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), April 15-17th, 2020

 

Invited Speaker: Quassim Cassam (Warwick University)

 

The last few decades of philosophical research have seen a growing interest in virtue theories in ethics and epistemology.  The systematic study of ethical and intellectual vices has not received the same attention. Vice epistemology is the study of the nature, identity and epistemological significance of intellectual vices. A long list of intellectual vices has been identified and examined: close-mindedness, arrogance, wishful thinking, stupidity, impatience, gullibility, dogmatism, insouciance, malevolence, snobbery, etc. Intellectual ethics is concerned with the cultivation of virtues and the avoidance of intellectual vices that get in the way of knowledge, responsible belief formation or inquiry. The workshop will focus on the following questions, among others:

What is the nature of intellectual vices?
How do they affect our epistemic behavior?
Are they character traits?
Are there other attitudes and ways of thinking that constitute vices of the mind?
Do they necessarily involve a motivational component?
Are there epistemically bad motivations?
Are we responsible of our intellectual vices?
Which kind of criticism do we deserve as intellectually vicious?
Do vices harm us as knowers? And other epistemic agents? Which sort of harm do they cause?
How do we identify and get to know our intellectual vices?
Are we self-ignorant of our vices? How can we improve our epistemic life if not aware of bad epistemic habits?

The workshop will be devoted to these and other topics discussed in the recent work by Quassim Cassam in  his book Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political. We invite papers on vice epistemology as well as other topics addressed in the wide philosophical work of Quassim Cassam.  These topics include the self and self-knowledge, perception, neo-Kantian epistemology, conspiracy theories and the philosophy of terrorism.

The conference is part of a long series of workshops that under the title of Interuniversity Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality promote the relation between different areas in philosophy. More specifically, it aims at exploring issues lying at the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and in this case epistemology. In former editions, the workshop has been devoted either to the work of specific philosophers, such as Richard Wollheim, Jonathan Dancy, Christine Korsgaard, Shaun Nichols, David Finkelstein, Gregory Currie, and Dan Zahavi among others; or to broad subjects, such as the Philosophy of Music (with Peter Kivy, Noël Carroll or Derek Matravers), Negative Emotions (Susan Feagin, Eileen John) and Language and Power (Mathew Chrisman, Deborah Muehlebach, David Plunkett, Jennifer Saul). On this occasion, the workshop will focus both on a topic, Vice Epistemology, and the philosophical work of Quasim Cassam

Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He was previously Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, and has also taught at Oxford and University College London. He is the author of Self and World (1997), The Possibility of Knowledge (2007), Berkeley’s Puzzle. What Does Experiences Teach Us? (with John Campbsell, 2014), Self-knowledge for Humans (2014). Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political (2019) and Conspiracy Theories (2019). His most recent work has been devoted to self-knowledge, vice epistemology, conspiracy theories, epistemology of ignorance, philosophy of terrorism, counter-terrorism and extremism, and topics in philosophy of medicine

We invite philosophers interested in Cassam’s work to submit their proposals for evaluation. Papers should be about 15 pages long (about 5000 words). They will be presented in 40 minutes maximum during the conference with 30 minutes for Q&A. Extended abstracts, of about 2000 words, will also be accepted for review.

Correspondence and submissions:   Jesús Vega-Encabo, Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, jesus.vega@uam.es

Deadline: January 23^th, 2020
Notification: February, 28^th, 2020

Sponsored by the SEFA (Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy) and funded by the Spanish Research Agency through the research grants: Intellectual autonomy in environments of epistemic dependence (FFI2017-87395-P) and Self-Knowledge, Moral Responsibility and Authenticity (FFI2016-75323-P).